Word: aiming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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surveys have shown, explained Jansen, that few people know the exact facts involved in current legislation, even in bills such as the Taft-Hartley Law which has been in the headlines for two years. "We aim to bring together in small compass and in simple language all the arguments pro and con, together with other possible solutions and the historical background of the major bills so that they may be kept for ready reference as they are discussed in Congress...
Poverty on Purpose. His aim was to change modern society into one in which "it would be easier for people to be good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism with its depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said...
...Committee on Admissions, which held its first screening meeting Saturday, will aim at an 1100 man figure for the incoming class in order to meet the Corporation's request for a peace-time College population of 4300. Future freshman classes will remain at this size, Bender said...
...five years from a gangling kid to something of an Amazon (circ. 1,000,000). Mrs. Thompson and Mrs. Valentine, with an editorial staff of 50 girls and one man (Edwin Miller, the 27 -year-old bachelor movie editor) have turned Seventeen into a moneymaking monthly by taking dead aim on teen-age readers (average...
...most highbrow music-which often they don't understand anyhow. A Strauss waltz is as good a thing of its kind as a Beethoven symphony. It's nice to eat a good hunk of beef, but you want a light dessert, too." Fiedler's aim: to dish up the dessert as well as possible-"I'm very fussy about that...